SPCA to give dogs back to Chilliwack puppymiller after being paid $12,000 "seizure costs".

Posted By: AAS <office@animaladvocates.com>
Date: Friday, 25 July 2003, at 10:01 a.m.

I have been fostering a rescued chihuahua cross seized from a Chilliwack puppymiller and sent to the Sechelt SPCA.

Yesterday all of us fostering these dogs were made to return the dogs to the Sechelt SPCA and we have been told that they are on the ferry this morning to be sent back to the puppy miller.

These dogs were in such bad shape when we got them. My sister fostered two female basenjis, I had a yorkie chihuahua mix and my daughter had a chihuahua. Our groomer had a min-pin. I have spoken to most of the fosters and all want to fight to keep the dogs.

These dogs were malnourished, all had fleas and other skin conditions. Most have very little teeth. Most of them can wipe the floor with their abused nipples as the drag that low. I have two female dogs that have been fixed and I never realized the breeder dogs vagina's were so enlarged and swollen. The SPCA has not spayed or neutered the dogs.

They are not house trained at all, they cower in fear of everyone...they did not even know how to walk up and down stairs. Lola, the dog I had, clung to me for two weeks...she was so freaked out by grass, I do not think she ever saw it.
Six weeks later I can walk around the park beside my house and Lola sticks right by me.

I feel the SPCA is not doing what is right for these dogs...They rescue them...charge 11,000.00 dollars and as soon as she pays it they cough up the dogs back. I am missing the part about protecting the animals. It is heart breaking to take these dogs back to the SPCA...after they have tasted real life.

Patricia Best
Sechelt, BC

Messages In This Thread

SPCA to give dogs back to Chilliwack puppymiller after being paid "seizure costs".
AAS -- Friday, 25 July 2003, at 10:01 a.m.

Patricia Best supplies more information
AAS -- Friday, 25 July 2003, at 10:22 a.m.

letter to the BC SPCA Board of Directors
AAS -- Friday, 25 July 2003, at 10:16 a.m.

Letter to the BC SPCA Board of Directors from Nikki Boechler
AAS -- Saturday, 26 July 2003, at 4:58 p.m.

Letter to the BC SPCA from Olivia Candille
AAS -- Tuesday, 29 July 2003, at 7:06 p.m.

A letter from Carol Sonnex
Carol Sonnex -- Friday, 25 July 2003, at 5:20 p.m.

AAS will be getting a legal opinion
AAS -- Friday, 25 July 2003, at 5:24 p.m.

Legal opinion from Alexander, Holburn, Beaudin & Lang agrees with AAS interpretation
AAS -- Friday, 25 July 2003, at 7:53 p.m.

AAS letter to Craig Daniell asking that the SPCA not return the dogs to the puppy miller
AAS -- Friday, 25 July 2003, at 8:00 p.m.

Craig Daniell just told AAS that the sum paid by the Chilliwack puppymiller was not $11,000.
AAS -- Friday, 25 July 2003, at 8:30 p.m.

well to the SPCA..that I have supported my whole life..I say you are a fraud
Patricia Best -- Friday, 25 July 2003, at 9:27 p.m.

The dogs came from a Chilliwack "Hobby Farm", seized May 13/0
AAS -- Saturday, 26 July 2003, at 7:15 a.m.

More legal questions about custody orders. AAS will be looking for answers
AAS -- Saturday, 26 July 2003, at 2:12 p.m.

News story - Coast Reporter
AAS -- Saturday, 26 July 2003, at 2:49 p.m.

News Story, May/03 Chilliwack Progress
AAS -- Saturday, 26 July 2003, at 3:00 p.m.

Thank God we are making a stand...someone has to...
Patricia Josh Best -- Saturday, 26 July 2003, at 3:34 p.m.

Foster Home Fallacy
Gail Moerkerken -- Saturday, 26 July 2003, at 8:31 p.m.

The SPCA contradicts itself
AAS -- Saturday, 26 July 2003, at 5:11 p.m.

Eileen Drever says the PCA Act made them do it
AAS -- Saturday, 26 July 2003, at 5:13 p.m.

Six months from seizure to conviction *LINK*
Gail Moerkerken -- Sunday, 27 July 2003, at 10:29 a.m.

The point at issue is: Could returning animals make it doubtful a court would prohibit ownership?
AAS -- Saturday, 26 July 2003, at 5:43 p.m.

Can the SPCA expect Crown to accept this case now that the SPCA has said the animals never were in that bad physical condition?
AAS -- Monday, 28 July 2003, at 11:55 a.m.

The public needs to know....
Patricia Josh best -- Sunday, 27 July 2003, at 2:23 p.m.

In April of this year, I very publicly condemned the Kamloops SPCA
Lynda Miller -- Sunday, 27 July 2003, at 2:31 p.m.

SPCA Double Speak: This place is no benign "Hobby Farm": There is no legal definition of a puppy mill
AAS -- Monday, 28 July 2003, at 8:55 a.m.

I will definetly NOT support the S.P.C.A.
cheryl de graaf -- Sunday, 27 July 2003, at 11:43 p.m.

How does this solution benefit the animals? Or is the solution not supposed to?
Louise Englund -- Monday, 28 July 2003, at 9:28 a.m.

SPCA double speak: justifying returning the Chilliwack Puppy Mill dogs
AAS -- Monday, 28 July 2003, at 9:51 a.m.

Is the SPCA going to say that the puppy miller can be trusted to meet its own definition of "responsible guardianship"?
AAS -- Monday, 28 July 2003, at 10:14 a.m.

Craig Daniell's "form answer" justifying the return of the dogs
Patricia Josh best -- Tuesday, 29 July 2003, at 8:14 p.m.

Patricia Josh Best responds
Patricia Josh best -- Tuesday, 29 July 2003, at 8:18 p.m.

Chilliwack Times, July 29/03
Patricia Josh best -- Tuesday, 29 July 2003, at 8:28 p.m.

Throw in the Downy, the spin cycle is on. Patricia Best answers the SPCA
Patricia Josh best -- Wednesday, 30 July 2003, at 10:00 a.m.

Patricia to meet with Craig Daniell
AAS -- Wednesday, 30 July 2003, at 5:10 p.m.

Chihuahua rescue: From what I can gather from talking to Eileen Drever, the SPCA sets its policies and it is due to money, budget restraints, and time.
Lisa S. -- Wednesday, 30 July 2003, at 9:28 p.m.

The meeting was postponed *NM*
AAS -- Friday, 1 August 2003, at 11:56 a.m.

SPCA: back to blaming the law for what it does not do to protect animals
AAS -- Wednesday, 30 July 2003, at 11:00 a.m.

Bottom line is - the SPCA chose not to use the law and return the dogs. Why?
AAS -- Wednesday, 30 July 2003, at 11:06 a.m.

As a person who has personally rehabilitated puppy mill dogs for years, I question the "seizure costs"
OKAWF -- Wednesday, 30 July 2003, at 11:18 p.m.

Just how gullible does the SPCA think the public is?
Lori Cumiskey -- Thursday, 31 July 2003, at 11:17 a.m.

Damage Control: Will the SPCA reseize the Chilliwack puppy mill dogs?
AAS -- Friday, 1 August 2003, at 8:06 a.m.